May (given name)
May is an English feminine given name. It is derived from the name of the month, which comes from Maia, the name of a Roman fertility goddess. The name May is also used as a pet form of Mary and Margaret.
It can also be a variant of the Arabic name Mai مي, which either means Water or Little gazelle.
People
- May Allison, American actress
- May Allison (runner), Canadian runner
- May Arida, Lebanese socialite
- May Arslan, member of the Lebanese Arslan family
- May Britt, Swedish actress
- May Bukhari, British social media influencer
- May Chidiac, Lebanese journalist and politician
- May Chow, Canadian chef
- Beryl May Dent, English mathematical physicist
- May Gibbs, Australian children's author and illustrator
- May Golan, Israeli politician, political activist and commentator
- May Hezlet, British amateur golfer and sports writer
- May Hollinworth, Australian theatre producer and director
- May J., Japanese singer
- May Kassab, Egyptian artist
- May Maple, electrical engineer, president of the Women's Engineering Society
- May McAvoy, American actor
- May A. Moir American floral designer, orchid breeder, botanical collector, and horticulturalist
- May Mourning Farris McKinney, American non-profit executive
- May Mikati, wife of Najib Mikati, Lebanese prime minister
- May W. Newburger, New York politician
- May Robson, Australian actress
- May Sarton, American poet and novelist
- May Sayegh, Palestinian poet and activist
- May Scaff Syrian actress and activist
- Lady May Abel Smith, a member of the British royal family
- May Erwin Talmadge, American civic leader and 19th President General of the Daughters of the American Revolution
- , Italian nude model
- May Tha Hla, Anglo-Burmese psychologist and activist
- May Whitty, English actress
- May Yarrowick Australian Aboriginal mid-wife
- May Ziadeh, Lebanese-Palestinian poet and writer
Fictional characters
- May, one of the main characters in Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Merchant's Tale"
- Aunt May, Peter Parker/Spider-Man's aunt and primary caregiver
- May Bellamy, girlfriend of John Dortmunder in novels by Donald E. Westlake
- May, a character from the 1988 movie 14 Going on 30
- May, localize version of Mii, main character in Jungle de Ikou!
- May, in the show Sid the Science Kid
- May Kanker, youngest of the Kanker sisters in the animated series Ed, Edd n Eddy
- May Kasahara, in Haruki Murakami's novel The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
- May Lee (The King of Fighters), in The King of Fighters fighting game series
- Melinda May, a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent played by Ming-Na Wen in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and subsequently appearing in Marvel comics
- May (Guilty Gear), a character in the Guilty Gear video game series
- May, an American Pekin duck from the Donald Duck universe
Pokémon characters
- May, character from the Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire video game
- May, one of the Pokémon video game rivals
- May, character from Pokémon (TV series)